SSH helper, then? (Was: I really should check my glasses before reading the Firewall pref pane)
SSH helper, then? (Was: I really should check my glasses before reading the Firewall pref pane)
- Subject: SSH helper, then? (Was: I really should check my glasses before reading the Firewall pref pane)
- From: Rui Carmo <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:35:37 +0000
On Sabado, Fev 1, 2003, at 22:15 Europe/Lisbon, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:
"Rui" == Rui Carmo <email@hidden> writes:
According to "man Xserver", you should be able to pass "-nolisten" to
get it to bind to only the Unix-domain socket. That's pretty secure.
Yep, but if we're going to have a GUI launcher for configuring basic
stuff like keyboard layouts (hint, hint), I guess that could be rolled
into it, and set to "on" by default.
The first thing any user will do after installing X11 is... "xhost +".
He/she won't activate the firewall (see my other post where I made a
jackass of myself by thinking the checkboxes detailed "blocked" ports),
or even bother checking that X access permissions are minimally
restrictive.
Come to think of it, some sort of SSH X forwarding helper (i.e., a
pretty Cocoa dialog box that would let users connect to a remote server
via SSH and enable X forwarding for them) would be damn useful to make
sure newbie users did things the right way.
R.
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